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Public's need to know often clashes with right to privacy: media debate rages over releasing images of VT's mass shooter Seung-Hui Cho.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 30-APR-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Public's need to know often clashes with right to privacy: media debate rages over releasing images of VT's mass shooter Seung-Hui Cho.(EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK)

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It was a difficult decision, and one that had to be made on deadline.

The photograph that the staff photographer had put before me, still damp from processing, was disturbing.

Two paramedics crouched around a young swimmer who had drowned during a routine practice after mysteriously hitting his head. Several teammates, still clad in trunks, stood close by transfixed, and in shock.

We debated, myself and two other editors, along with the photographer, whether or not to publish the picture in the suburban daily newspaper where I worked in the early 1980s.

We agreed, after no small amount of debate, that it served us no purpose to run the photograph and expose the family to even more...

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